Personally I loved shred, and I went hunting for the best shredders in the Heavy Metal universe. I googled it and after listening to a lot of music, I figured Yngwie Malmsteen from Yngwie Malmsteen and Paul Gilbert of Racer X were my two favorite, but Racer X was better because the guitar harmonies were just way too awesome. Plus the name Racer X was just cool.

That's how I had heard of Paul Gilbert... I was looking for shred, all the rest of the stuff I know about Paul I learned later by looking deeper into his past since I was very interested by this shred god.

Of course, none of Second Heat would have been possible without Bruce, so Bruce too became one of my favorite guitarist, and when I listen to some of the stuff he makes today I always find it refreshing and cool, but it's not heavy metal enough for me to listen to constantly. I'm an occasionnal Bruce listener, but I like it.

I was into metal and started buying guitar magazines to read about the guys who played it. One of my mates got me into Skid Row and I read an article in Guitarist magazine (UK) in which Snake said the two guitarists influencing him most at the time besides his old friend Zakk were James Hetfield of Metallica and PG of Racer X. I really enjoyed reading and learning from the guitar magazines, and they kept mentioning how great a player PG was, so I bought Lean Into It on vinyl.

Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:59 pm

Simon

God Of The Sun

Joined: Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:43 amPosts: 2042Location: Almada, Portugal

Mr. Big here.

Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:21 pm

GeorgeLynchTiger

Superhero

Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:27 pmPosts: 1207Location: Wales UK

Put in audio CD to Total Guitar, it must of been his shred 101 or whatever it was called, and went..........WOW

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Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:47 pm

hhslf

Godzilla

Joined: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:23 amPosts: 640Location: Wisconsin

My friend who went to MI told me about him. He got a lesson from Paul, I think.

None of the choices adequately summarize my first Paul Gilbert experience, so I chose the closest one: Guitar magazine. Actually, it was an instructional video. I was young, at the time, and not too interested in guitar playing or guitarists for that matter--my brother, on the other hand, was getting himself into anything music related. It was Christmas time and I had received, as one of my gifts, some new hardware for my computer. I was playing Team Fortress in my room when my brother walked in with a video cassette in his hand. He put the Paul Gilbert instructional VHS into my cassette player and began watching it intently. I would glance over periodically. But I happened to glance over just as Gilbert was running his "rabbit out of the guitar" bit, and that really did hook me. I wanted to watch the rest of his video and was quite pleased when we came across the comedic segments. It's safe to say I discovered Gilbert before Racer X. My first Racer X experience, however, was completely coincidental--a story for another day, I suppose.

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Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:31 pm

luke1010

Dr. X

Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:29 pmPosts: 133Location: England

A friend of mine shown me Technical Difficulties a few years ago, I've been hooked ever since.

I came across Paul while watching a Total Guitar DVD, it had a shit load of stuff on it…but this guy stood out and when I saw Paul showing some licks I thought ‘’THIS GUY IS FUCKIN AWESOME, WHY ISN’T HE IN A BAND???’’
I thought he was just a guitar teacher [well he kind of was] and then I started watching more of his videos including Intense Rock and learned he was in a band and he was only 19 when he recorded his first album, so I got a hold of the album and was blown away. Ever since then Racer X is a part of my every day life…They are, Hotter Than Fire!

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